Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I have chronic pain issues that make it hard to write or do anything at all, and I have disabilities that compound on those issues too, and I write all the goddamn time without using AI because I'm not also a fucking loser.

Happy Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Always grateful for the wide selection and kind community at Bookmark Halifax, @tridenthalifax.bsky.social , and @kingsbookstore.bsky.social . I'm especially excited to have a physical copy of Carnalis by @tiffmorris.bsky.social to add to my shelf! #CIBD2026

A very merry Independent Bookstore Day to all who celebrate! Hello from Iron Dog Books in Vancouver 👋

JOIN The Augur Bookshelf’s virtual book club meeting on April 27th! 📚 We'll be reading “Bird Suit” by @sydhegele.bsky.social! A queer, fictional story about a birdwoman. 🐦🍃 CW: death, child abuse, toxic relationship, domestic abuse, pedophilia, physical abuse, sexual assault, mental illness, gore

Our next book club read is “Bird Suit” by @sydhegele.bsky.social! 🐦🌿 RSVP OR subscribe to our magazine to get a code for 10% off this and other spring titles 👉 bakkaphoenixbooks.com/augur-book-c... 🎟️ Grab a FREE ticket now! (Seats are limited!): Click the link in bio! Or click below! ⬇️

Our full TBR👇 March - “The Empire” by Susanna Fournier April - “Bird Suit” by @sydhegele.bsky.social May - “A Palace Near the Wind” by @aijiang.bsky.social June - “Green Fuse Burning” by @tiffmorris.bsky.social July - “The Dragonfly Gambit” by @thesuiway.bsky.social & more 👇

I had so much fun making this list of amazing short story writers and novelists for @49thshelf.bsky.social It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more 💗💗📚 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...

New book reviews up. @sydhegele.bsky.social and @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!! @invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

The 5th protester from the 2023 Gillers has *finally* had her charges dropped. The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests. Enjoy the longlist celebrations canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org/node/144

A massive thank you to Natalee Caple, Geoff Ryman, and Lorina Stephens for selecting BIRD SUIT (@invisibooks 2024) as one of five books on the shortlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Grateful to be alongside Canisia, Nalo, Clayton, and Frankie ❤️

Blackheart Man has moved from the Sunburst Award longlist to the shortlist! Congratulations to my fellow authors on the list: Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele, Canisia Lubrin & Clayton B. Smith locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social and all the finalists!

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! Huge congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social, Canisia Lubrin, & Clayton B. Smith! quillandquire.com/omni/five-bo... #booksky ❤️📚

Andrea Gibson forever ❤️ #poetry

NEW PAINTING! "Real Location" 22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.

www.thestar.com/opinion/my-f... Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you @debdundas.bsky.social and the Star team for your guidance. And @sydhegele.bsky.social let’s talk

Such a powerful story, Sydney. Thank you for writing it. Words have such power.

For the Star, @lindasvendsen.bsky.social and I share pieces one year after Andrea Skinner's editorial that detailed her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and revealed that her mother, Alice Munro, stayed with him. Ed. by @debdundas.bsky.social. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

✨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org

The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is back! Read the longlist for the 2025 award! Then read the books! Big congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, and the rest of the nominees! 💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit

Seconded. Kristin has turned me on to some phenomenal books by authors I hadn’t yet read (Sydney Hegele, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, @afsulli.bsky.social, among others.) A trip into the city isn’t complete without stopping in for coffee, a convo, and copping some fun new reads. Little Ghosts is the best.📚💙

Now on the EVENT website: Michelle Hardy reviews We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele. This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3 Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...

At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.

We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book! We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜

"oh, this time of great suffering will produce great art" no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"

Tuesday May 27, 6pm at the Caledonian (856 College, Toronto): Drunk Fiction with @avivarubin-author.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social Marianne Miller, Dennis Bolen. Hosted by @emilyweedon.bsky.social #CanLit emilyweedon.com/drunk-fiction

Fresh off the press! Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...

Adding my voice to the chorus of "You know what, fuck book pirates AND the mediocre asshat techbros who profit off stolen material that they know is stolen because they don't give a shit about other human beings" :) May they all fall into an open manhole today :)

"E.G.N. Lafleur leads poetry devotees on an intimate pilgrimage through the wet cold of Ontario winter, where city becomes wilderness, memory becomes revelation, and to love is to feast in due season. A truly impressive debut." - Sydney Hegele (Bird Suit & The Pump) @egnlafleur.bsky.social

We're here! Learn more about the agents at Howland Literary here, and keep an eye out for our MSWLs in the next few weeks ✨ howlandliterary.com

I got to write a little thing about a book I love. BIRD SUIT by Sydney Hegele.

The Magi Come to Toronto drapes my hometown in winter and calls us in to warm up. Lafleur's take on queer love in Toronto is soft and deliberate, fierce and with god. @egnlafleur.bsky.social

What do all of these beautiful Canadian books have in common? They're all on a list I wrote for the 49th Shelf! What kind of list? Read here to find out: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...

Thrilled to (finally!) share that I have a poem in the forthcoming anthology SPEECH DRIES HERE ON THE TONGUE: POETRY ON ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE AND MENTAL HEALTH, edited by Holly Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva and Amanda Shankland and out with Porcupine's Quill in Spring of this year. 🌾❤️

Writing advice that should be more popular than it is: - Take workshops taught by writers in your community - Go to book launches and readings in your community - Proactively practice craft by reading about it, applying what you read, and discussing it in your community

www.32auctions.com/organization... #ConnectingGaza art auction!

My book of love and grieving in November, coming to a bookstore near you. #fall2025 book design by Angela Yan. Image is on the ferry looking out toward Tsawwassen.

If you're a young trans person struggling to cope with the Trump administration's actions and statements, you're not alone. Below is a list of resources and organizations that can support you